Chitohexose Induce the Yeast Proliferation of Candida albicans

Osamu Kadowaki; Ayako Ogasawara; Toshihiko Watanabe; Takeshi Mikami; Tatsuji Matsumoto; Yoshitomo Misawa; Yoshiharu Matahira; Kazuo Sakai

doi:10.1248/bpb.30.583

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Chitohexose Induce the Yeast Proliferation of Candida albicans

Osamu Kadowaki, Ayako Ogasawara, Toshihiko Watanabe, Takeshi Mikami, Tatsuji Matsumoto, Yoshitomo Misawa, Yoshiharu Matahira, Kazuo Sakai

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Keywords: Candida albicans, chitohexose, chitohexose, morphological change, yeast, hyphae

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2007 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 583-584

DOI https://doi.org/10.1248/bpb.30.583

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Abstract

Candida albicans generally grows in the hyphae form in RPMI1640 medium. Chitohexose (COS-6) induced the yeast form of C. albicans dose-dependently under this condition. When COS-6 was exposed to C. albicans, yeast proliferation was observed 6 h after starting the incubation. When we observed the growth form of C. albicans cultured with COS-6, yeast proliferation was observed at log-phase. These results showed that COS-6 was useful for the yeast form inducer of C. albicans.

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